John Wilkes Booth was a handsome, successful stage actor in 1865 when he assassinated Abraham Lincoln. A staunch confederate and supporter of slavery, Booth felt Lincoln’s actions during the CivilWar had gone too far. After Booth’s original plan to kidnap Lincoln failed, Booth hatched a new plan to assassinate Lincoln instead. Despite his connection to his Confederate-sympathizing brother,...

The CivilWar Trust website features the latest CivilWar preservation news, battle maps for most major CivilWar battles, history articles, photos, and so much more. Learn more about how you can help CWPT save more of our CivilWar battlefields. If you are a federal or state government employee, please consider supporting the CivilWar Trust through the Combined Federal Campaign or State...

Guided tours of CivilWar battlefield sites. Renowned authorities provide the details of personalities, strategies and outcomes of key CivilWar campaigns. CivilWar historians and expert guides. CIVILWAR TOURS, now in our sixteenth year of operation, offers the very best historical battlefield...

Learn about the music of the American CivilWar. Includes CivilWar songs, fife and drum music, recordings, photographs of CivilWar musicians and more. From the cadences of regimental fife and drum corps and the reveilles of buglers to the to the sentimental songs that soldiers sang, the Civil...

The Arkansas CivilWar Sesquicentennial Commission commemorates the 150th anniversary of the CivilWar in Arkansas by sanctioning events, encouraging research and education programs related to CivilWar Arkansas, and preserving the sites that witnessed the CivilWar in Arkansas. The CivilWar Sesquicentennial will be celebrated between 2011 and 2015. Links to repositories with Arkansas Civil...

This effort was begun to share knowledge of the Navies, Federal and Confederate, during the American CivilWar. It is hoped that many people will contribute articles, illustrations, artifacts, pictures, etc to more accurately shape what is known and taught about the men and their culture. Please come back frequently to see how our site grows. To join our site click on the register link to the...

He CivilWar in Mississippi was waged on land and sea. The Mississippi River being vital to both the Union and the Confederacy, bitter battles were fought to take and keep it. Corinth, Port Gibson, Holly Springs, Iuka, Vicksburg, and other sites became fiercely contested battlegrounds. Some of the war's most famous fighters struggled on these battlegrounds, including Ulysses S. Grant, William...

Union and Confederate Veterans at the 75th Reunion of the Battle of Gettysburg, July 1-3, 1913. Veteran bearers and colors of the 143rd PA Vols. at Harrisburg on Flag Day, 1914. Governor John K. Tener speaking in front of the Capitol, Flag Day 1914. Sergeant Alexander Rogers holding the colors of the 83rd PA Vols.

First announced to the public on Feb. 1, 1996; last updated on April 4, 2015. The American CivilWar is one of the most momentous and controversial periods in American history. This site was founded with the intent of collecting copies of or links to as many primary documents from the period of the secession crisis as is reasonably possible, with the goal of shedding light on the causes of...

UniversityArchives.com is the best online source for US historical manuscripts, civilwar documents and American historical documents for sale. If you are here for the first time, please browse our diverse inventory of historically significant documents, manuscripts, letters and relics, in all price ranges, from an extensive variety of categories. Check our new listings, read about us in the...

Hanover Brass Foundry offers 650 CivilWar reproduction buckles in brass, sand cast hand worked much like CivilWar era, licensed castings of collections in the VA Historical Society & The Museum of the Confederacy. Mechanicsville, VA. Below are the sales/reference catalogs through the years. Sales began from word of mouth, store front at my father's grocery store on the battlefield tour route,...

CivilWar Washington examines the U.S. national capital from multiple perspectives as a case study of social, political, cultural, and medical/scientific transitions provoked or accelerated by the CivilWar. The project draws on the methods of many fields. Historical manuscript and print materials chronicling and interpreting the experience of war and life in the District. Database identifying...

With interactive programs, primary documents, and lesson plans, the educators' page provides for the needs of all types of teachers. See history through the eyes of those who lived it at The CivilWar in Missouri, an exhibition of the Missouri History Museum. Enthusiasts will find a wide variety of books, gifts, and souvenirs that reflect Missouri's CivilWar heritage. Your source for Civil...

In the early 1860s, the Lancashire cotton industry, which dominated the mid-19th century British economy, was devastated by the CivilWar. In April 1861, President Abraham Lincoln ordered a blockade of the Confederate southern ports, the outlet for the raw cotton on which Lancashire’s mills depended. Attempts to find alternative sources of supply from India or Egypt had little success. Deprived...

The finest in American CivilWar Relics & Military Antiques from the Antietam & Surrounding Areas. We are a full time relic dealer servicing the Antietam and surrounding areas. The majority of our dug relics come from Jefferson County West Virginia, Clarke County Virginia, and Washington & Frederick Counties of Maryland. We live and operate out of a historically rich area. There were a lot of...